Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours

335 videos

29:25 2021-12-24 Happy Christmas Eve
  • A Christmas Eve 2021 reflection on the year and the coming one, from the NFT revolution and DeFi losses to the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics.
  • Details the Possession microfinance relationship as the near-term proof of the 2014 TED Talk mission to bank the developing world.
28 timestamps 1:27:34 2021-12-18 AMA 12/18/2021
  • Returns from a week long silent meditation retreat in the Colorado mountains and describes renewed focus and a calmer response to online criticism.
  • Walks through upcoming staking features: full peer to peer networking, partial delegation, proxy keys, contingent stake pools, and the Conclave federated pools paper.
76 timestamps 35:24 2021-12-02 On DApps
  • A talk on the Cardano dapp ecosystem centered on the smart-contract certification program and its four levels, built through a micro-summit and a standards institute.
  • Explains why IO does not know dapp launch dates, how the PAB is a tool rather than a light switch, and rebuts the one-transaction-per-block myth.
34 timestamps 29:19 2021-11-30 Some Thoughts on ISPOs
  • A whiteboard on Initial Stake Pool Offerings (ISPOs) as a Cardano fundraising innovation, using Meld's billion-ADA offering as the example.
  • Explains the regulatory tangle: ISPOs may be securities offerings under Howey, and the infrastructure bill's broker rules could ensnare even full nodes.
26 timestamps 51:24 2021-11-24 Caravan Moving On: MicroSummits
  • A talk introducing domain-scoped micro-summits for 2022, starting with a DexCon to bring DEX builders, certification partners, and the Plutus core team together.
  • Details the dapp certification program, the TypeScript PAB, and the Splendid UI/UX firm building the dapp store and light-wallet experience.
46 timestamps 1:28:54 2021-11-21 AMA 11/21/2021
  • Daedalus and Plutus keep getting faster, with Mithril, pipelining and input endorsers targeting a 20 to 40x throughput jump in 2022.
  • Smart contracts and mainnet are already live, and correcting misinformation about it, from trolls, VCs and rival projects, is a constant frustration.
104 timestamps 35:39 2021-11-20 Post-Truth Economy
  • An essay arguing crypto and society have entered a post-truth economy where perception and feelings override reality, hard work, and objective verification.
  • Contrasts the noise of YouTube pundits with Cardano's real achievements: an army of scientists, the Ouroboros root of trust, and the most concurrent smart-contract model.
29 timestamps 27:54 2021-11-18 Calm
  • A call to calm and perspective amid price obsession, framed against a broken fiat monetary system printing half of all US dollars in two years.
  • Argues crypto is a way to opt out, with Cardano built on a decades-long outlook to become the back-end of nation-states and the biggest preserver of human rights.
26 timestamps 1:40:02 2021-11-13 AMA 11/13/2021
  • Return from a month across South Africa, Zanzibar, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Egypt reinvigorated about why Cardano was built.
  • Argue Ouroboros and extended UTXO already gave Cardano an unimpeachable root of trust and a parallelizable computing model that critics underrate.
130 timestamps 1:49:06 2021-10-30 AMA 10/30/2021
  • Broadcasts live from Addis Ababa partway through a marathon Africa tour, having met heads of state in Zanzibar and Burundi while pursuing e-governance, identity, and microfinance deals across the continent.
  • Recaps a packed roadmap: Alonzo's success, the Plutus Application Backend nearing launch, the Babbage hard fork's performance work, Mithril light clients, a Hydra scaling beta targeted for Q1, and the Mamba EVM sidechain due in January.
135 timestamps 1:45:53 2021-09-19 AMA 09/19/2021
  • Celebrate the Alonzo smart contract launch and preview the Cardano Summit alongside an upcoming multi country Africa tour.
  • Defend Cardano against Mike Novogratz calling it an identity token and Mark Cuban's DeFi comments, while roasting Hashgraph's patent based model.
115 timestamps 34:54 2021-09-10 More on Concurrency
  • A technical defense of Cardano's extended UTXO concurrency ahead of the Alonzo launch, rebutting the one-transaction-per-block myth.
  • Explains that eUTXO parallelism comes from using many UTXO cells and design patterns like semaphores and order books, with off-chain batching by stake pools.
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